With his Haarlem colleague Pieter Claesz, Heda was one of the leading painters of the so-called monochrome banquet piece in the Netherlands. In this panel of 1635 he shows off his virtuoso ability to describe reflections and arrange elliptical shapes.

N. R. A. Vroom. A Modest Message as Intimated by the Painters of the "Monochrome Banketje". Vol. 2, Schiedam, The Netherlands, 1980, pp. 67–68, no. 339a, ill., states that its present location is unknown; catalogues a panel sold at Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, November 25, 1969, no. 8, which he calls a later replica of the MMA work.